Professionals use which dimension to determine eligibility for services for individuals
with ID?
a. Dimension I
b. Dimension II
c. Dimension IIII
d. Dimension IV
e. Dimension V
A focus of intervention for children with SLI will almost always include
a. Focus on morphosyntax skills.
b. Focus on advanced discourse skills.
c. Focus on understanding sarcasm.
d. All of the above.
I want my student to practice an Elkonian box with a CVC word; I chose the word ____
as a target word.
a. Bee
b. Bow
c. Beadle
d. Boat
e. Bye
f. All are CVC words
In a study, if I report my statistically statistical results, but do not indicate the
magnitude of the statistical effect, I have violated which aspect of high-quality
research?
a. Randomization
b. Fidelity
c. Blinding
d. Subject equivalency across control and experimental groups
e. Effect-size estimates
f. None of the above
The empiricist believes the child is a “blank slate,” this belief has influenced
___________?
a. Emergentist theory
b. Social interactionist theory
c. Cognitive constructivist theory
d. Behaviorist theory
e. Cognitive Constructivist and Behaviorist Theories
The area of clinical practice that supports and meets the complex communication needs
of children and adults commonly goes by the acronym:
a. CAA
b. CAC
c. ACA
d. ACC
A person who does not initiate conversation, but answers questions when asked
represents what quadrant of the assertive-responsive scheme
a. + assertive, + responsive
b. ” assertive, + responsive
c. + assertive, – responsive
d. ” assertive, – responsive
Children with ASD have difficulty with sensorimotor skills
a. Related to objects.
b. Related to social interaction.
c. Related to awareness of others.
d. All of the above.
e. B and C above.
Sentence combining is
a. Appropriate for school age children.
b. Directed by the teacher or SLP.
c. Improves sentence complexity.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
You are an SLP and you worry that without a specific diagnosis you will be unable to
develop an effective language intervention approach. To avoid this problem you should
a. Refer the student to a physician for a specific diagnosis
b. Consider the situation from a descriptive-developmental approach
c. Continue to administer assessments until a diagnosis is made
d. Refuse to provide intervention until the student receives a diagnosis
A child with HFA is most likely to be classified on Fey’s assertiveness-responsiveness
rubric as
a. + assertive, + responsive
b. + assertive, – responsive
c. ” assertive, + responsive
d. ” assertive, – responsive
Parents of children with ASD need to be trained in all of the following, except (pick the
best answer)
a. Behavior modification to reduce negative behaviors.
b. Interactions to enhance child’s social-emotional and communication behaviors.
c. Facilitating the child’s independence.
d. Eliminating repetitive motor mannerisms.
e. Becoming effective educational advocates for the child.
Setting out paper but no crayons/pencils and asking the child to draw a picture is an
example of
a. Communication temptation
b. Means-end
c. Object permanence
d. Scaffolding
e. Joint visual attention
The goal attainment scale (GAS)
a. Is a sophisticated use of a rubric.
b. Uses videotapes of the intervention sessions.
c. Is a computer-generated graph of data.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above
This critical-thinking parameter focusing on the need to gather supporting data when
identifying a communication problem.
a. Accuracy and scope of information
b. Evaluating evidence
c. Change and adaptability
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
Chose the best answer. This type of assessment may over-identify children from
minority cultures.
a. Norm referenced
b. Criterion referenced
c. Dynamic assessment
d. All of the above
An assessment tool is said to have validity if it
a. provides intervention strategies.
b. is efficient to administer and score.
c. produces similar scores if administered by different people
d. measures what it says it measures
e. All of the above
Qualitative language analysis
a. is part of the two-step LSA.
b. compares the child’s language quality with a language-age match.
c. includes both microanalysis and macroanalysis of the LSA.
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
The ability to identify and manipulate the individual sound segments of words is a part
of which emergent literacy domain
a. Oral language skills
b. Phonics
c. Phonological awareness
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
A central way in which Visual Scene Displays support language development is by
a. Motivating students to play with objects in the scene.
b. Organizing vocabulary and communicative messages schematically rather than
semantically.
c. Having the child spell words via scanning
d. Evaluating policy regarding AAC
e. Promoting peers to accept the student’s disability.
f. All of the above
If a student’s standard score falls between +1 and +2 standard deviations on the
bell-shaped curve, we know that
a. the child is language impaired
b. he got 100 answers correct on the administered test
c. he performed worse than 90% of his peers
d. d. None of the above
e. All of the above
Before age 10, language output of individuals with ID generally
a. Has reduced vocabulary diversity
b. Limited morphological use
c. Has a reduction in the quantity of language
d. Both A and C.
e. Both A and B.
f. All of above
If I say to the child “What TV shows do you like to watch all the time.” It is likely that I
am:
a. Trying to elicit a present progressive verb (I am watching Batman)
b. Trying to elicit a past tense verb (I watched Batman)
c. Trying to elicit a regular verb (I watch Batman)
d. Can”t tell what verb form will be elicited from this example
Cultural self-awareness includes the following
a. Being a member of a collectivist culture
b. Preference for one’s own culture
c. Completing a feature match
d. Examining values, beliefs, and patterns that are part of one’s own behavior
e. C and D
Since children with ASD have difficulty with joint visual attention, intervention
includes
a. Watching the child’s gaze and focus of attention.
b. Joining the child at eye level.
c. Asking the child a question.
d. Waiting for a response from the child.
e. All of the above.
In a goal, the statement “after hearing the teacher produce a three-part command”
reflects which part of the goal statement
a. a do statement.
b. a condition statement.
c. a criterion statement.
d. A and B
e. B and C
Level IV research reflects:
a. High-quality, non-randomized experimental research
b. Well-designed non-experimental research
c. Case studies
d. None of the above
An assessment that asks parents to identify various words that their child either says of
signs is
a. The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory.
b. The Cottage Acquisition Scales for Listening, Language, and Speech (CASLLS).
c. The Ling Six Sound Test.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
In Dimension III of the ecological model, professionals directly observe
a. An individual’s social roles in everyday activities.
b. An individual’s cognitive and academic skills.
c. An individual’s participation and interpersonal interactions.
d. Both A and C
e. All of the above
A description of the activities, location, and social aspects of intervention is known as
a. Focused stimulation.
b. Assertiveness-responsiveness scheme.
c. Continuum of naturalness.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above
The appropriate term for the potential to develop a disorder based on specific
biological, environmental, or behavioral factors is
a. At risk.
b. Disability.
c. Handicap.
d. Impairment.
e. All of the above
Research on the effect of AAC has demonstrated that ACC
a. Is more than an assistive technology.
b. Is a significant benefit to the development of language skills.
c. Is an expensive but not very effective intervention.
d. A, B, and C.
e. A and B only.
When the practitioner uses conversational recast training (CRT) she
a. Asks the child to repeat back the sentence in its correct form
b. Alternates between declarative and interrogative question forms
c. Implements a highly natural child-directed activity
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above
A way for the interventionist to profile an individual’s ability to initiate conversation
turns and respond to others’ communication attempts is known as
a. Focused stimulation.
b. Assertiveness-responsiveness scheme.
c. Continuum of naturalness.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
A hierarchy of research quality is used to rank the scientific merit of a particular
intervention with respect to evidence-based practice (EBP). The highest quality
evidence resulting from randomized experimental research is
a. Level I.
b. Level II.
c. Level III.
d. Level IV.
e. Level III and Level IV.
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